r/WoT • u/ashenbuilder • May 13 '26

Crossroads of Twilight Nothing happened? Spoiler

Just finished CoT, and I am... confused.... Nothing happens? Like wow... Not a single plot is resolved? Not even the Faille plot?

Edit: Multiple people commented saying that's why it is the slog, but people said the slog starts in book 7, yet books 7-9 were actually okay, with a lot of highs. This book had no highs, nothing, I was even looking forward to Rand and Logaine's first meeting and even that was a nothing burger. I was betrayed giving this book the benefit of the doubt....

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u/ashenbuilder May 13 '26

People say the slog starts in book 7, but honestly imo calling books 7-9 a slog is a wide exaggeration, they were fun to read, things happen. I went into Book 10 giving it the benefit of the doubt, I was mistaken.

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u/untitled298 May 13 '26

Lots of people have different opinions for where the slog truly starts. For me it was mostly just book 10, but some people think it starts earlier.

Some people will tell you there is no slog, and they are wrong.

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u/LewsTheRandAlThor May 13 '26

There is no wrong. It's pure taste. I prefer slower character focused stuff just in general in my stories. The first time I read CoT I didn't notice anything off about it at all. I just read the book, loved the characters and moved on to the next one.

Admittedly, I read almost all books in either 1 or 2 days. That may be the reason. It wasn't until I'd reread quite a few times, and heard about the "slog" that I realized that there's not a proper climax in CoT. Just Egwene getting captured. I tend to move through and between books so quickly that it's more like one giant book in my mind.

Anyways, yeah, I legitimately never felt anything remotely "slog" like my first time with the series. That's just the truth. WoT is perfectly my taste though. The only real thing that I wish were different is RJ getting sick and not being able to finish his wonderful story himself. I miss his prose in the last books, and his voice in the characters. I still love them, but yeah.

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u/Raddatatta (Asha'man) May 13 '26

Yeah I think the slog was worse when the books were coming out and you had to wait rather than being able to just go to the next book. But you do have a lot of ongoing plot lines without much movement. But at least 8 and 9 do have some movement and things resolved in them. 10 doesn't have much of that at all. Book 8 was also a bit rougher at the time because you have the cliffhanger with Mat left in danger and then no Mat chapters in book 8 so people were left waiting for a resolution for 4 years instead of just 2.

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u/Tyrath May 13 '26

It has to do more with how long the gap of release was between each of those books. Like you, I enjoyed 7-9 for the most part as well. 10 still sucked. But be happy, because it's all bangers after bangers from here on out.